Anjing Zhen was somewhat surprised by Zenno Rob Roy's question. In his view, Zenno Rob Roy did not seem to think much of The Matriarch, and the tone he had just heard seemed to confirm it.
The entanglement between these two Horse Girls was quite well known throughout the industry.
They had both debuted with two wins from three races, and both entered the Classic Frontline with tremendous popularity. Their famous rivalry had begun on that very Classic Frontline.
The Oka Sho, Oaks, Shuka Sho—these three G1 Races that made up the Triple Crown—along with the G2 Rose Stakes before the Shuka Sho.
Across those four races, The Matriarch claimed every championship, becoming the third Triple Crown filly in the history of the Japanese Shining Series and the ninth Triple Crown Horse Girl overall.
Yet, regrettably, Zenno Rob Roy had finished runner-up in every one of those clashes. In the Oka Sho and Shuka Sho especially, she had lost by the narrowest of margins, with virtually no distance between them at the finish line.
Once they entered their Classic Year, the two Horse Girls faced each other twice more in the Japan Cup and Arima Kinen.
And just as in their Classic Year matchups, The Matriarch won both races.
Honestly, Anjing Zhen asked himself—if he encountered such an opponent in an extreme competitive sport... perhaps "rival" was not even the right word. She was practically a nemesis, a bane. He probably would never bring her up of his own accord.
It was not as if there had been no chance of winning. Even if there was a gap in strength, it was nowhere near an insurmountable one. Yet she could never win whenever they met. That was simply too frustrating, too heartbreaking.
And that heartbreak was, in fact, how the